Thought that was New Zealand, since thats only on maps 50% of the time
Microsoft's Bing search engine claims Australia doesn't exist
Submitted 11 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.techspot.com/news/100946-microsoft-bing-search-engine-claims-australia-doesnt-exist.html
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SteefLem@lemmy.world 11 months ago
stifle867@programming.dev 11 months ago
New Zealand is technically part of Australia anyway (when you have something we want to claim).
SteefLem@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oof. I think if nz heard you they will haka your ass ;)
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I was “thinking” of NZ ;) Not sure about Finland but sounds about right \s
sexeducation@fanaticus.social 11 months ago
Who cares about kangaroo land?
puttybrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Google isn’t even sure so at least Bing is providing an answer, not that the wrong answer is great
wrath_of_grunge@kbin.social 11 months ago
Bing gets you answers fast.
they didn't say they'd be the right answer tho.
Zyratoxx@lemmy.world 11 months ago
sexeducation@fanaticus.social 11 months ago
Imagine using ecosia in 2023. You’re being scammed my friend haha
RandomVideos@programming.dev 11 months ago
Deebster@programming.dev 11 months ago
Mine shows a bit more context, did you crop it out or is it just a difference in settings?
superduperenigma@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Australian users of Bluesky and Mastodon
Now that’s what I like to see!
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Search engines don’t make claims. They just deliver search results. People who fail to understand the difference have a really hard time interpreting the results.
Rinox@feddit.it 11 months ago
Yeah, but it’s changing. Search Engines today don’t just present you links to other websites, but have also started to take some of that information and show it to you directly. First it was by showing you little excerpts, but now with Bing Chat it’s becoming a lot more developed.
With Bing Chat, you ask your search engine a question, and it will answer you directly in a conversation-like manner. This feels a lot more like it’s not just showing you a list of sources, but it’s answering you directly, making claims, stating “facts” etc. You can easily forget it’s just a search engine, can’t fault people for this.
ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Fuck, who’s turn was it to pay off bing this month?!
ABCDE@lemmy.world 11 months ago
whose
ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
This isn’t time of semantics, we’ve gotta problem here!
Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Kind of fucked up that we claim it does exist when you think about it
hltdev@lemmy.world 11 months ago
does anyone actually ever use Bing, when not either tricked/manipulated into using it or under some sort of bribe/incentive via ms rewards ?..
elgordio@kbin.social 11 months ago
I use it for free access to gpt-4 and dalle-3. Can’t say I use it as a browser though.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just so you know - it’s nowhere near as good as the “real” gpt-4.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Everybody who uses DDG is mostly using Bing. Albeit more privately.
PinkPanther@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Huh. I had no idea! And I use DDG… But I feel like all search engines are shit these days. 50% of the hits are autogenerated translations with AI creating false .[country] domain (I’m in Denmark) which are just advertisements. I miss the old days of search engines. Fuck, even Alta Vista gave more right answers back in the Netscape days!
Tanoh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I got super tired of google a few months ago. “Ah, you searched for these terms. But I am going to ignore that and instead show you results for these diffetent ones, because fu.”
So I started using bing instead, I wouldn’t say it is worse. Just differently bad. Some search things are much worse, some are much better.
Quite annoying how they keep pushing for “AI” all the time though, so might go back to google soon anyway.
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 11 months ago
I will admit that I used it for years for the rewards, and it worked well for me. Once I started using a VPN though, it decided I could only redeem my rewards in Canada (I live in the US). I could have probably fixed it, but it caused me to have one of those “what am I doing anyway” moments and switch to using a SearXNG instance instead.
Thade780@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Bing is so much better than anything else for image search in my experience. Anything else, lol.
Tavarin@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Yep, Bing is pretty solid as far as search engines go.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 11 months ago
It’s video search is good for porn lmao.
Vilian@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
you can search anonynous in bing, that’s why Ecosia and DDG use it backend
MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
…Guess I’m from Queensland, New York now.
Fades@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Welcome to the states, brother!
kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 11 months ago
All LLM replies are hallucinations
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 11 months ago
The article isn’t about LLMs.
WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 11 months ago
Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You didn’t really think there was an overgrown island with rabbits that stand upright and every animal, including dogs, hellbent on killing you?
Pratai@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Guildenstern and Rosenkrantz are Dead FTW!
Matriks404@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Reminds me of time when Poland was erased from Time Zones map in Windows, creating “The Great Polish Sea”.
ToeNailClippings@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Why are we relying on algorithms and AI to tell us facts now? Why dont these companies have curated information for set subjects, as this is how conspiracy crap kicks off in this day and age!?
echodot@feddit.uk 11 months ago
The article isn’t even about AI. This is just default Bing search. The AI actually does know about Australia.
It’s rather like a wild back how Google search said that there were no French military victories in history. It’s just bad data collection, nothing to do with AI
ToeNailClippings@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Previous articles linked on here before said the top search engine result was chatgpt.
My comment still stands. There is an algorithm being used to give you the search engine result. What we need is a human curator for this sort of stuff. Not data analysis.
egeres@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Who caaaaaares, why is this news 😭? It’s been said over and over that these networks aren’t reliable and can make mistakes, so what, it will be fixed in a month or so? Is not like these systems are deployed in critical situations or anything
echodot@feddit.uk 11 months ago
It’s been said over and over that these networks aren’t reliable
What networks? What are you on about, did you even read the article?
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Australia really is the Wyoming of continents.
Lophostemon@aussie.zone 11 months ago
It doesn’t exist. Source: I’m here.
ABCDE@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Where?
Lophostemon@aussie.zone 11 months ago
I’m not sure. It doesn’t exist. Perhaps I’m sleeping.
Matt@lemdro.id 11 months ago
There
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 11 months ago
This feels just like that situation when gøøgl€ was saying there are no countries beginning with “K” before listening Kenya, except on a continental scale.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 11 months ago
gøøgl€
Wow that is really obnoxious.
Candelestine@lemmy.world 11 months ago
#AustraliaIsntReal
Wake up sheeple, time to get with the program. It’s finally all coming out…
jerome@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Australia is really New Zealand, everyone knows that.
Gazumi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Flat Earth and other loonies will be all over this as an “accidental leak”
brewbellyblueberry@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
I mean have you heard an Australian accent? It’s like “this is totally a legit accent, we’re speaking English, mate, jabbamawong!” half of it isn’t even words they just make it up as they go like they’re not being sarcastic.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Whats the one that “ackshually” doesn’t exist? Its like some running gag or something
peto@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Finland.
Or New Zealand if you are a cartographer.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 11 months ago
NZ
Yessss
Teknikal@lemm.ee 11 months ago
My brains thinking Finland but I might be wrong.
Archer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Can’t have a NATO lake without Finland so of course it exists
Aatube@kbin.social 11 months ago
It would've been better if they just kept it... I mean, the theory has everybody already
Vitaly@feddit.uk 11 months ago
fact
assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We don’t
Pratai@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I’ll bet it does though.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I’ll never forget the fall of Australia during the Emu Wars. The siege of Sydney was truly terrible.
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Emus? I think you mean cassowaries…
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The cassowaries were being controlled by the platypus, who were in turn controlled by huntsman spiders. Drop bears fit in there somewhere…
kambusha@feddit.ch 11 months ago
They were dropping bears. It was horrible.
MCHEVA4EVA@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Emu war was on the other side of the country.
middleman35@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
The First Emu War was. Emu War II was much more devastating.
Source: Bing